Intimate family stories from three prominent storytellers, reflecting the historic reality of 1960s Finland, when teenage Pirkko can’t decide which she hates most, God, her communist Dad or her growing breasts; a multigenerational family epic from 1950s Yugoslavia to today; and, in a modern day Vilnius apartment bloc, Ona defies the Soviet past and alien present with folklore and ancient ritual.
With:
Pirkko Saisio (Finland)
Goran Vojnović (Slovenia)
Kotryna Zylė (Lithuania)
CHAIR: Dan Richards
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About the chair:
Dan Richards is a writer and broadcaster. His first book Holloway was a 2012 collaboration with Robert Macfarlane and Stanley Donwood. Since then he written four further books, The Beechwood Airship Interviews, Climbing Days, Outpost and, most recently, Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark. His BBC Radio 4 series, Only After Dark, was broadcast to acclaim in 2022. Dan has written for the New York Times, Observer, Guardian, Economist, Esquire and Monocle. He lives in Edinburgh.
